Damn colons
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| dtfinch Jul 10, 2006 5:31 PM EDT |
I've encountered a number of linux programs that put colons in a lot of their filenames. rdiff-backup and isync/mbsync immediately come to mind. |
| grouch Jul 10, 2006 6:37 PM EDT |
I was all set to give you a lecture on eating plenty of fiber, grains and leafy vegetables, after seeing the threat title. Never mind. A pox on any program that makes weird filenames, especially those idiotic things that use spaces! |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 11, 2006 10:24 AM EDT |
Not that I would ever download any restrictive-copyrighted materials, Mininova.com puts random things into their torrent filenames, like "-{mininova}-" and sometimes those mixed bracket-dash-ampersand-dingbat combinations play heck with trying to refer to the file on the command line. Konqueror will select (and rename) the files without trouble, so it's not a killer, but I would love a quick script that would go through a directory and strip out all the non "A-Z,a-z,0-9,-_" characters, replace the spaces with underscores, and hopefully do a "-1, -2,..." to any resulting duplications. Maybe this is a good candidate for the "bounty" system of software development? |
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